Word: curriculum
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...others. This appreciation of the importance of physical culture, together with much other knowledge of great value, was lost during the middle ages, and the gift of Mr. Vanderbilt is the first step in modern times toward incorporating the experience of ancient centuries into the present day medical curriculum...
Furthermore, the tutorial system may be used to supplement the distributional requirements for a degree. The present mode of 'satisfying these requirements is arbitrary, and does not constitute a well, rounded phase of collegiate endeavor. It introduces into the student's curriculum four totally unrelated courses, in which he has but a passing interest. They represent only a superficial glance into fields of study a part from his real interests...
...winning essay, by Durand, advocates a division of all undergraduates into Distinction and Pass groups at the close of the Sophomore year. For Pass men the requirements for a degree would remain much as they are at present, but for Distinction men the four-year curriculum would be completed in three years. At the end of the Junior year the student would take his divisional examinations, and his Senior year would be devoted to such advanced work as is now done by graduate students...
...Geneva school is the oldest institution of its kind in Europe, and each year it presents a curriculum intended primarily for English-speaking students from the United States and Great Britain. Besides lectures on peace and various other international problems by many prominent statesmen of Europe and officials of the League, there are departments in advanced and elementary languages and sciences. In addition, the proximately of the school to the offices of the Secretarial of the League, gives students a unique opportunity to study the inside workings of that organization...
...discriminate, to derive a sense of values from experience longer and wider than our own, would be the first of a liberal education," writes Mr. John Erskine in the current New Republic. This definition is sound enough, and Mr. Erskine's contention that the college curriculum is over-crowded with courses on second-rate subjects also points to a danger in modern education. His solution of the problem is to cut the curriculum down to a study of a few great men of all ages...